p. 1016 Flashcards
pentameter
a line containing five metrical feet
persona
literally, “actor’s mask.” Term applied to a first-person narrator in fiction or poetry.
personification
The attribution of human qualities to nonhuman things, such as animals, aspects of nature, or even ideas and processes.
petrarchan sonnet
consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as cdecde or cdcdcd
plot
a series of events in a story or drama that bear a significant relationship to each other.
poetic license
variation from standard word order to satisfy the demands of rhyme and meter
point of view
the person or intelligence a writer of fiction creates to tell the story to the reader.
prose
ordinary written or spoken expression, resembling everyday language or speech
prosody
the study of elements of versification
protagonist
the hero, the main character in a narrative, in conflict either with his or her situation or with another character
quatrain
a four-line stanza
refrain
the repetition within a poem of a group of words, often at the end of a ballad stanzas
rhyme
the repetition of the final stressed vowel sound and any sounds following produces perfect rhyme.
rhythm
the quality created by the relationship between stressed and unstressed syllables.
